{"id":20,"date":"2026-09-01T07:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/saddle-fit-signs\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T07:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:52:50","slug":"saddle-fit-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/saddle-fit-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Five signs a saddle no longer fits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Horses change shape with the seasons, with work and with age, and a saddle that fitted in spring can pinch by autumn. These are the signs our yard team looks for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to watch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White hairs under the saddle area, a horse that dips away from the girth, uneven sweat marks after work, a saddle that slides to one side, and a sudden reluctance to go forward in canter. Any one of them is worth a call to the fitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A horse changes shape through the year. Here is what to look for before the saddle fitter comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horse-care","tag-tack","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/horseclub-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}